I find that just plain irresponsible... it is YOUR cat going into someone else's backyard and messing with stuff. How would you feel if I came over to your backyard and purposefully killed all the fish in your pond or crapped in your kids' sandbox? You'd probably be pissed as hell, and rightfully so. So own up and take some responsibility for what your property does to someone else's backyard... I (or anyone else) shouldn't have to clean up after your (or anyone else's) cat/dog/whatever.
FWIW, I'm not the AC posting everywhere else in this thread, but I just find it ludicrous that you think it's somehow MY responsibility to keep tabs on YOUR cat.
It is the year 2004, but where are the flying cars? (I was promised flying cars four years ago, dammit!)
But we don't need flying cars, because we have the Internet. (and to really bastardize the comemrcials together) How many Libraries of Congress per second can your technology handle?
Personally, I'd prefer something akin to Minority Report, but so that I can escape the car if I want to (ie, none of this gov'mint lockdown crap). It would be awesome to not need to worry about where I'm driving or that idiot next to me who's eating cereal and reading the paper while driving... all those types of folks can do that safely if we get robot cars!
I'm rambling, so I'll stop here, before it gets ugly.
Too bad the two links in the summary go to Wired and the WSJ, or else I could make some witty comment about/. being "The Most Powerful Force in Technology Spontaneous Combustion" and get a +5, Funny...
Or perhaps I could make some reference to Star Wars and the little-used quote about something being the "ultimate" in the universe...
I thought we had come to the conclusion that since Sun "sold out" to Microsoft, that Java was therefore "dead"... didn't we? And now these guys come along and... wait... Trolltech...?
The order of songs within an album IS important to the overall "aesthetic effect"... try looking through any of the numerous behind-the-scenes or making-of for albums, and you'll see that song order is important. Your comparison to a book is only applicable if the books are self-contained novels in and of themselves. Try reading Return of the King without having read the others first, and you can see that ordering is important.
Generally, an important attention-getting song is placed right at the very beginning. The first "single" is usually around track 3, slower songs around 7, and an instrumental/remix/remake/alternate/etc is either at the end or right close to it.
Now, this probably doesn't apply to those WOW! albums, but since that's basically a compilation of singles, it's playing into the article author's hand anyway...
Also, have you heard of a little-known artist called Pink Floyd? If you've listened to any of their albums, you would definitely think that song ordering is important.
As to the claim that random shuffle appeals to "brain damaged" kids... well... so do video games, apparently. Damn that rap music.
Thom Swiss, editor of The Iowa Review Web and a professor of English at the University of Iowa who focuses on those forms of hypertext, said that to him Mr. Brown's creation seemed mechanical. "While inventive if buggy, I'm not sure how useful it is," he said. "At this stage of its development, it's more of a game and less literature - and not because of the pulp story but because the formal elements of composing the piece are given to you: you just fill in the content."
And I couldn't agree more. I don't see this style as being appealing to me. Neat concept, but it's not quite "it"...
Haven't you seen the commercial? We don't NEED flying cars!
Jeez... is television truly that dead already that mainstream MSNBC doesn't realize the existence of informative and somewhat-funny commercial advertisements that portray the Internet and IBM as the solutions to every problem we have with data storage and transportation? What do we need flying cars for?
OK, who's the numbnuts moderator who rated this INFORMATIVE?!?! Did you even READ the post before you clicked the button? I mean, not reading the article is somewhat acceptable, but not even reading the POST?!?!?! GAH!
A note to/. mods, editors, hosts, OSDN, etc.:
The (RI|MP)AA will not come burn your house down if you "inform them" of me this second! But the instant that you mark me as +1 Funny and click on, they're going to get you, too!
Pass this on to 15 of your friends within the next 1000000 minutes or you'll have bad luck forever and your dog will die, too!
1) Patents are a way of restricting rights to certain ideas/methods/etc.
2) AT&T can prevent anyone else from circumventing anti-spam filtering software with this patent
3) Ergo, AT&T are the good guys
There's more to the story than the simple Reuters blurb that the CNN/Money article above shows... internetnews.com has got a more in-depth article about this.
Also interesting to note is that IBM says this is the same processors that will be in next-gen consoles from Nintendo and Sony that are due out next year... but I thought that wasn't gonna happen...?
This will work just fine with MP3's, but won't work with Apple's DRM'ed files. For those, you need to actually authorize the computer so it can play the AAC file.
Exactly. What has been gained by doing this that I can't already do with Windows File Sharing across my personal network? All this allows me is to run a program on my computer OTHER than iTunes that allows me to download music from a computer that IS running iTunes that the 2nd computer has setup in its playlist.
Pardon me, but BFD. SCO's team of programmers has come up with better stuff than this.
I asked a question in my submission that I think would be really interesting to debate -- is this the first wave of the "only outlaws will have hacks" ideology that is being formed by constant C&D/DMCA/etc....?
As an anecdote, here at college, it's the M$ way or the highway (tongue only partially in cheek). The main way that the sysadmins monitor and successfully update/upgrade university-owned computers on campus is by a sector-by-sector disk image over the network. This results in horrendous problems because not all of the machines are identically hardware compatible -- it's caused problems with display adapters (no, the LCD monitor's native resolution in the Windows Lab in the science building is NOT 640x480x8...), inabilities of people to log onto machines because the machines have not been "verified as authentic" and numerous other problems. As much as I hate to say that Micro$haft may be right (there goes my karma), they do have a point that it's best for individual installs and then updates. Perhaps M$'s software is just too stupid to recognize that the $PROPRIETARY_HARDWARE_DISPLAY_ADAPTER is not available and should go with something else?
Making a transition to "computer graphics" does not necessarily mean a move to "3D work." There's been tons of CG usage in Disney cartoons already (stampede in Lion King, flying through trees in Tarzan, etc.), and neither of those would be considered 3D animations (like Toy Story, Shrek, et. al.)... hell, even South Park is animated completely by computer, and you can't seriously tell me that it looks in the least like it's 3D.
This is not going to be the end of a traditional 2D-look for cartoons, but I can see it as Disney just embracing the technology that's there, like they did with Snow White and the pseudo-3D frame photography that they used for that.
You have to admit, this is the most innovative thing Microsoft has done. Ever.
What you mean? There was the... wait, no, that was done by Xerox. How about the... nope, Apple, that time. Well what about... hmm, nope, that was Mosaic. Well, there's always the... no... not even sure who did that, but it wasn't Microsoft.
Is anyone surprised that the six most well-known (not necessarily "the best", althought I do love them all) projects are the ones that were voted in? Projects that people "in-the-know" (hopefully those going to COMDEX) will already know about? Where are the smaller projects, or other ideas/programs, so they can receive more mainstream publicity?
I'm honestly not trying to troll here, but just wondering why KDE would be sent, for example, rather than a lesser-known OSS project.
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I wouldn't be calling this very non-lethal if it managed to get aboard a plane at 20,000 feet... or in an air-traffic-control room... or on an ocean liner several hundred miles from land... or in a subway...
I'm not worried about the military aspects of this device... it's the civilian ramifications that are scary.
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I find that just plain irresponsible ... it is YOUR cat going into someone else's backyard and messing with stuff. How would you feel if I came over to your backyard and purposefully killed all the fish in your pond or crapped in your kids' sandbox? You'd probably be pissed as hell, and rightfully so. So own up and take some responsibility for what your property does to someone else's backyard ... I (or anyone else) shouldn't have to clean up after your (or anyone else's) cat/dog/whatever.
FWIW, I'm not the AC posting everywhere else in this thread, but I just find it ludicrous that you think it's somehow MY responsibility to keep tabs on YOUR cat.
It is the year 2004, but where are the flying cars? (I was promised flying cars four years ago, dammit!)
... all those types of folks can do that safely if we get robot cars!
But we don't need flying cars, because we have the Internet. (and to really bastardize the comemrcials together) How many Libraries of Congress per second can your technology handle?
Personally, I'd prefer something akin to Minority Report, but so that I can escape the car if I want to (ie, none of this gov'mint lockdown crap). It would be awesome to not need to worry about where I'm driving or that idiot next to me who's eating cereal and reading the paper while driving
I'm rambling, so I'll stop here, before it gets ugly.
a Space Elevator may not get built without help from the U.S. Government
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In other news, physicists report that a space elevator may not get built without help from the universe itself
Or perhaps I could make some reference to Star Wars and the little-used quote about something being the "ultimate" in the universe
Oh well.
I thought we had come to the conclusion that since Sun "sold out" to Microsoft, that Java was therefore "dead" ... didn't we? And now these guys come along and ... wait ... Trolltech ...?
Nevermind, it makes sense now.
The order of songs within an album IS important to the overall "aesthetic effect" ... try looking through any of the numerous behind-the-scenes or making-of for albums, and you'll see that song order is important. Your comparison to a book is only applicable if the books are self-contained novels in and of themselves. Try reading Return of the King without having read the others first, and you can see that ordering is important.
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... well ... so do video games, apparently. Damn that rap music.
Generally, an important attention-getting song is placed right at the very beginning. The first "single" is usually around track 3, slower songs around 7, and an instrumental/remix/remake/alternate/etc is either at the end or right close to it.
Now, this probably doesn't apply to those WOW! albums, but since that's basically a compilation of singles, it's playing into the article author's hand anyway
Also, have you heard of a little-known artist called Pink Floyd? If you've listened to any of their albums, you would definitely think that song ordering is important.
As to the claim that random shuffle appeals to "brain damaged" kids
From the article:
And I couldn't agree more. I don't see this style as being appealing to me. Neat concept, but it's not quite "it"
C'mon AT&T, get your act together!
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/. can't keep up with all this flip-flopping!
First you're the bad guys for going against the DNC list
Then you're the good guys for having a patent against specific spam-filter-circumvention techniques
Now you're the bad guys again for having a ridiculous patent and going after eBay, PayPal, et. al.
C'mon, just make up your minds already! The karma whores here at
Haven't you seen the commercial? We don't NEED flying cars!
... is television truly that dead already that mainstream MSNBC doesn't realize the existence of informative and somewhat-funny commercial advertisements that portray the Internet and IBM as the solutions to every problem we have with data storage and transportation? What do we need flying cars for?
Jeez
Well then, it's now illegal to link to websites that may contain copyrighted material. Gotcha.
/. mods, editors, hosts, OSDN, etc.:
Well, here's a link to a page about a DeCSS program (no, not the one you're thinking).
Here's another that distributes freeware.
Oh, and a link to Disney just for the hell of it.
A note to
The (RI|MP)AA will not come burn your house down if you "inform them" of me this second! But the instant that you mark me as +1 Funny and click on, they're going to get you, too!
Pass this on to 15 of your friends within the next 1000000 minutes or you'll have bad luck forever and your dog will die, too!
1) Patents are a way of restricting rights to certain ideas/methods/etc.
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2) AT&T can prevent anyone else from circumventing anti-spam filtering software with this patent
3) Ergo, AT&T are the good guys
wait a minute, I thought they were the bad guys
I'm confused now
For bashing Thomas Friedman, you get a gold star!
No, actually, you get a little click-to-green-dot doohicky.
There's more to the story than the simple Reuters blurb that the CNN/Money article above shows ... internetnews.com has got a more in-depth article about this.
... but I thought that wasn't gonna happen ...?
Also interesting to note is that IBM says this is the same processors that will be in next-gen consoles from Nintendo and Sony that are due out next year
Pardon me, but BFD. SCO's team of programmers has come up with better stuff than this.
As an anecdote, here at college, it's the M$ way or the highway (tongue only partially in cheek). The main way that the sysadmins monitor and successfully update/upgrade university-owned computers on campus is by a sector-by-sector disk image over the network. This results in horrendous problems because not all of the machines are identically hardware compatible -- it's caused problems with display adapters (no, the LCD monitor's native resolution in the Windows Lab in the science building is NOT 640x480x8 ...), inabilities of people to log onto machines because the machines have not been "verified as authentic" and numerous other problems. As much as I hate to say that Micro$haft may be right (there goes my karma), they do have a point that it's best for individual installs and then updates. Perhaps M$'s software is just too stupid to recognize that the $PROPRIETARY_HARDWARE_DISPLAY_ADAPTER is not available and should go with something else?
Making a transition to "computer graphics" does not necessarily mean a move to "3D work." There's been tons of CG usage in Disney cartoons already (stampede in Lion King, flying through trees in Tarzan, etc.), and neither of those would be considered 3D animations (like Toy Story, Shrek, et. al.) ... hell, even South Park is animated completely by computer, and you can't seriously tell me that it looks in the least like it's 3D.
This is not going to be the end of a traditional 2D-look for cartoons, but I can see it as Disney just embracing the technology that's there, like they did with Snow White and the pseudo-3D frame photography that they used for that.
Hmm
Is anyone surprised that the six most well-known (not necessarily "the best", althought I do love them all) projects are the ones that were voted in? Projects that people "in-the-know" (hopefully those going to COMDEX) will already know about? Where are the smaller projects, or other ideas/programs, so they can receive more mainstream publicity?
I'm honestly not trying to troll here, but just wondering why KDE would be sent, for example, rather than a lesser-known OSS project.
I wouldn't be calling this very non-lethal if it managed to get aboard a plane at 20,000 feet ... or in an air-traffic-control room ... or on an ocean liner several hundred miles from land ... or in a subway ...
... it's the civilian ramifications that are scary.
I'm not worried about the military aspects of this device
Microsoft using a (primarily) Macintosh processor for their next proprietary gaming console?
/. about KDE?
... What's next? SCO declares itself bankrupt and unfit to stand trial, releasing all code it's ever developed into the GPL???
A possible win for the "good guys" in the Do Not Call case?
An article on the front page of
RedHat announces cutting of support?